#47723 [Bgs]: strtotime(JD) provides wrong timestamp for some JD

ID: 47723 User updated by: berthier at imcce dot fr Reported By: berthier at imcce dot fr Status: Bogus Bug Type: *Calendar problems Operating System: ArchLinux, CentOS (x86_64) PHP Version: 5.2.9 New Comment: strtotime() is designed to try and parse a date from various weird exotic formats, any English textual datetime description as it is written in the php doc. So I don't understand why it should not return false (or a valid timestamp) for all julian days (which are not considered as textual datetime). This behaviour is (at least for me) a problem as it returns a wrong information which is not useful. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-03-20 01:59:49] scottmac@php.net You can use parse_date() to see what it is doing here, its taking the digits directly before the period as the day of the year and the part after as the year. I'm not sure why its not happening on your OpenSuse machine, but I get this behaviour on all the 5.2.9 builds I tested and I don't see a problem with what its doing. strtotime() is designed to try and parse a date from various weird exotic formats. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-03-19 18:28:54] berthier at imcce dot fr Description: ------------ For the first 365 days of each millennium, the function strtotime() applied on a Julian Day provides a Unix timestamp whereas it should not. Moreover, the Unix timestamp is wrong and always ranges between 110638652400 and 110670188400. This bug exists for php 5.2.9 on ArchLinux 2009-02 kernel 2.6.28 x86_64 and also for php 5.2.6 on CentOS 5.2 kernel 2.6.18 x86_64. It does not exist for php 5.2.6 on OpenSuse 11.1 kernel 2.6.27 i686. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php $epoch_0 = 2400000.5476; for ($i=0; $i<=100000; $i++) { $epoch = $epoch_0 + $i; if (($timestamp = strtotime($epoch)) === FALSE) { echo $epoch." == not a timestamp!\n"; } else { echo $epoch." == timestamp = ".$timestamp." ; JD = ".unixtojd($timestamp)."\n"; } } ?> Expected result: ---------------- 2400000.5476 == not a timestamp! 2400001.5476 == not a timestamp! 2400002.5476 == not a timestamp! ... 2400365.5476 == not a timestamp! 2400366.5476 == not a timestamp! 2400367.5476 == not a timestamp! Actual result: -------------- 2400000.5476 == not a timestamp! 2400001.5476 == timestamp = 110638652400 ; JD = 3721128 2400002.5476 == timestamp = 110638738800 ; JD = 3721129 ... 2400365.5476 == timestamp = 110670102000 ; JD = 3721492 2400366.5476 == timestamp = 110670188400 ; JD = 3721493 2400367.5476 == not a timestamp! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=47723&edit=1